Bio

Tiffany C. Li (@tiffanycli) is an attorney and Resident Fellow at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project. She is an expert on privacy, intellectual property, and law and policy at the forefront of new technological innovations.

Li leads the Wikimedia/Yale Law School Initiative on Intermediaries and Information, where she researches cutting-edge legal issues involving online speech, access to information, and Internet freedom. Additionally, Li is also an Affiliate Scholar at Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy.

She frequently writes and speaks on artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and other new and exciting legal issues of the future. Her recent publications include a cultural exploration of Chinese privacy law and an analysis of the E.U. “Right to be Forgotten” as applied to artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Further, Li has been honored as a Transatlantic Digital Debates Fellow (Global Public Policy Institute/New America Foundation), a Fellow of Information Privacy (International Association of Privacy Professionals), and a Fellow and Founding Member of the Internet Law and Policy Foundry.

Previously, Li was in-house counsel for General Assembly, a global technology education company. Additionally, Li is a licensed attorney in California, New York (pending), and New Jersey (pending). Tiffany holds CIPP/US, CIPP/E, CIPT, and CIPM certifications from the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). She is also a Women Leading Privacy Advisory Board Member for the IAPP.

She holds a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, where she was a Global Law Scholar, and a B.A. in English from University of California Los Angeles, where she was a Norma J. Ehrlich Alumni Scholar.

Broadcom proposes to purchase rival Qualcomm for $130 billion

The chip maker Broadcom, which announced last week that it would be moving its operations from Singapore to the U.S., offered to purchase Qualcomm for $130 billion. It would be one of the biggest tech mergers in history. Harper Neidig reports in the Hill.

Tech sector lines up in support of DACA

More than 100 tech companies have filed an amicus brief in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Program. Signers include Google, Facebook, Uber, Lyft and others. DACA is an Obama-era executive action that protects so-called “Dreamers”–undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children who are now working and attending school in the U.S. The companies’ brief supports a case brought by the state of California against the Trump administration to block the administration’s effort to end the program. The companies say ending the DACA program would inflict serious harm on American companies. Avery Anapol reports in the Hill.

Trump FBI releases significantly watered-down annual crime report

The Trump FBI has released a significantly watered-down crime report. Each year, the FBI releases crime data on things like arrests, contexts for crimes and other data. These reports help journalists and others recommend solutions for law enforcement. However, this year’s report contained 77 fewer tables than the report for the previous year. It contained just 38 tables, compared to 115 tables in 2015. This thwarts efforts to analyze policies the Trump administration is pursuing to crack down on MS-13 gangs. It also doesn’t help researchers concerned about mass incarceration. Expanded FBI data tables showing race, gender, and ethnic data are fewer in number than they were in years past. Clare Malone and Jeff Asher report in Fivethirtyeight.

Sessions blasts tech companies over encryption

The DOJ has been unable to obtain evidence from some 6,900 electronic devices over the last 11 months due to encryption.That’s according to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions who remarked in New York last week that tech companies are thwarting the government’s effort to obtain evidence. In one instance, Sessions noted, a terrorist in Garland Texas in 2015 sent some 100 instant messages to a terrorist overseas. However, Sessions says, the DOJ is unable to obtain those messages due to encryption. Sessions’ concerns about encryption mirror the Obama administration’s. Morgan Chalfant reports the the Hill.

Verizon wants FCC to preempt state privacy laws

Colin Wood reports for StateScoop that Verizon is asking the FCC to preempt state privacy laws. The telecom giant filed a 20-page white paper with the agency expressing its concern that not pre-empting state privacy laws would create a patchwork of state regulations. Earlier this year, Trump killed the FCC’s privacy rules passed during the Obama administration which would have subjected telecoms to greater scrutiny. Now, however,Verizon is attempting to hide behind the FCC as it faces the prospect of more stringent regulation by states and localities.

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